Practice of Faith under COVID-19: Exceptional Cases
| Autor: | David Emmanuel Singh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
060303 religions & theology
060101 anthropology History Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts Criminology 0603 philosophy ethics and religion medicine.disease_cause Faith Pandemic medicine 0601 history and archaeology Coronavirus media_common |
| Zdroj: | Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies. 37:306-316 |
| ISSN: | 1759-8931 0265-3788 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0265378820969729 |
| Popis: | Included here are some cases that highlight exceptional behaviour under the novel coronavirus (CV) pandemic that cuts across religious boundaries. The Christian cases were drawn from the United States and South Korea; Islamic cases were drawn both from India and Iran; and the Hindu and Sikh cases were highlighted from India. Of these, notably, Iran is a declared theocracy, whereas the United States and India are arguably contexts of rising Christian and Hindu theocracies. We are familiar with the evidence of the positive role of religions in society. This paper brings together exceptional cases where irrationality, control and selfishness trump wisdom and altruism. The evidence highlighted here shows that people are capable of suspending reason and behaving with a motive inspired by faith (often tarnished by the state’s intervention), even when it is clear there might be serious personal and social costs involved. |
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